One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix and Disney
OCs belong to me.
-Chapter Forty-Two-
"Crocodile!" a sudden shout caused us all to jump as Vivi came storming into the room.
"Vivi!" we cried out upon seeing her atop the large staircase in the room.
"My humble greetings, Vivi—royal princess of Alabasta" Crocodile greeted, unfazed by the princess' anger. "I mean Miss Wednesday," he corrected, "I compliment you on having evaded our assassins in order to get this far" he grinned.
"You have no idea what I'd do or how far I would go to see you dead, Mr. Zero!" Vivi sneered as she rushed down the steps and towards the man—violently swinging her Peacock Slashers around. "I wish you had died in your cradle, you monster!"
"Vivi, wait! First, get us out of this thing!" Luffy shouted.
"This country would still be peaceful if it wasn't for you!" she angrily screamed, throwing one of Peacock Slashers straight towards the Warlord's head...only for it to go right through him as he turned into nothing but a wisp of sand.
"Not going to work..." Smoker grunted, leaning back against the wall behind him and crossing his arms.
"Feel better?" Crocodile mocking asked as he reformed himself back to normal right behind Vivi. "As a native of this country, you must surely know that I have the power of the Sand Sand Fruit—want to become a mummy?" he chuckled, bringing up his hooked hand and pressing it against the princess' neck as he uncomfortably leaned in real close to her face.
"He's…he's made of sand!" Usopp cried out.
"Rather fitting power to have considering the country we're in" I said.
"You leave her alone! I'm warning you—right now or I'll kick your ass!" Luffy viciously snarled.
"Have a seat, princess" Crocodile coolly said as the princess was restrained and harshly pushed down into a nearby chair by Miss All Sunday. "I trust you're comfortable there" he said, acting as if he was nothing more than a mere host checking in on their guest. "I must say, your timing is perfect—the party is about to begin, isn't that right, Miss All Sunday?" he hummed.
"Yes" his partner nodded.
"Party?" Nami questioned.
"I doubt this is your typical fun kind of party" I frowned.
"It's exactly noon right now, time for Operation Utopia" Mis All Sunday calmly announced.
"Huh? Utopia?" Nami questioned.
"That's...uh...quite the ambitious name you got there for your plan" I remarked, not exactly liking how bold of a statement such an operation sounded by claiming to be that of a utopia.
"What's an Operation Utopia?" Luffy inquired, curiously tilting his head before growing frustrated the second Crocodile started to laugh. "Hey!" he angrily snapped, not locking how mocking the Warlord was currently being.
"It will mean the demise of the Alabasta Kingdom, Miss Wednesday" Crocodile chuckled. "I'm going to wipe it off the face of the map as if it never was—all people, great and small, will be sucked into eternal darkness as they wither in agony" he grinned. "Let Operation Utopia begin!"
"Damn you! Just what is it that you think you're going to do to Alabasta?!" Vivi growled.
"Princess, would you like to know what kind of people I despise of all others?" Crocodile suddenly asked. "Those bias hypocrites who bleed endlessly about the happiness of the people" he coolly confessed.
"You plan to kill my father?!" Vivi hastily concluded before he could say anymore. "You'd be dead before you could get close to him!" she shouted.
"You needn't shout, I'm not going to touch a hair on his head—he's not even worth killing" Crocodile scoffed as if the idea of killing a king was nothing more than a waste of his time. "Instead, I shall let him taste a humiliation that is far crueler than death" he mockingly grinned.
"What's crueler than death?" Usopp shakily whimpered.
"A lot of things can be crueler than death..." I bitterly muttered, causing the sharpshooter to loudly gulp.
"That's such an unladylike expression you have there, your highness" Crocodile teasingly chuckled the moment he saw the hateful look the princess was giving him.
"I demand that you tell me—what is this Operation Utopia?!" she angrily demanded. "Answer me!"
"You demand me?" Crocodile questioned, raising an eyebrow in amusement. "Now, now, perhaps you need to review your current situation?" he asked, his grin now drawing back into a hateful sneer as if offended that she thought she had any right to start bossing him around.
"I said answer me!" the princess only screamed.
"You're a courageous young woman—well, why not" he eventually shrugged as he turned away in thought. "The operation is already underway, very well, I'll tell you my plan to end this country—about Operation Utopia" he relented...
The air grew chillingly cold with dread and horror as he calmly went about explaining his plan.
"That's horrifying" Nami whimpered once he was finished.
"He...he can't be serious...?" I muttered, hand reaching out and quickly latching onto Zoro's as my blood ran cold. "That...that's just so cruel..." I shivered as my chest grew tight with anxiety the longer I thought about just how horrifying this plan of his was and all the innocent lives that would be lost because of it.
"Well, do you like it?" Crocodile asked. "The operation you once participated in is now reaching its climax," he grinned, "if you listen closely, I'd wager you could hear the howls of the kingdom and they all scream the same—protect Alabasta, protect Alabasta, protect Alabasta, protect Alabasta..." he mocked.
"Stop it! How are you so cruel?!" Vivi cried, unable to listen to him any more than she already has.
"It's heartbreaking, isn't it?" he sighed, grin only growing wider. "Their love for the kingdom will be what destroys it" he cruelly chuckled, taking pleasure in listening to the princess break down as she started to cry. Angrily did Luffy scream upon hearing our friend's broken sobs as he smashed his body against the cage's bars, slipping his arms through the gaps in a desperate attempt to reach for the Warlord.
"Is he stupid? Didn't he hear what I said before?" Smoker asked.
"He's defiantly stupid, but that's also the reason he's our captain" Zoro nodded.
"He may be stupid, but he's determined which is something we need" I sighed.
"Crocodile, I'm so going to kick your ass!" Luffy sneered, his movements soon growing sluggish the longer he kept contact with the Seastone.
"You know what?" Crocodile suddenly hummed. "I've had to make so many moves to be able to get to this point—the sabotage to inflame the citizens, manipulating the Rebel Army—do you have any idea why I go to such lengths to destroy this county?" he asked.
"As if I'd understand anything from inside your foul mind" Vivi glared.
"You've got a pretty sharp tongue for a princess, don't you?" he chuckled.
"Vivi!" Usopp gasped when the princess suddenly knocked over her own chair.
"Now, now, what are you trying to do, Miss Wednesday?" the Warlord asked in amusement as he now watched the struggling princess squirm around on the floor.
"Stop you...I'm going to stop you..." Vivi huffed, using all of her energy to try and drag herself across the floor one inch at a time. "There's still time—if I can just get to Alubarna, east from here...if I can just get there before the Rebel Army, I may be able to stop them..." she grunted. "I'll never give up, while there's a chance—somehow, I'm going to stop you. Watch, you won't get away with this" she sneered.
"No!" Luffy growled in agreement.
"You can quit fooling around now" Crocodile said, quickly growing bored with watching the princess writhe around on the ground. "What a coincidence, we were just about to head to Alubarna ourselves, Miss Wednesday" he suddenly grinned, catching everyone's attention. "If you like to come with us, princess, then please do," there was a cruel glint in his eyes, "or you can try and save them" he offered, holding up a golden key.
"The key!" Vivi gasped.
"The key to this cell? Hey—give it!" Luffy shouted once he realized what it was that the Warlord was holding. Crocodile ignored him as he continued to watch the princess struggle against her restraints before finally dropping the key the minute he saw her crawling toward him. In a blink, Vivi freed herself and lunged straight for the key...only for it to slip past her fingers as the Warlord tapped his heel and opened a trap door that the key now fell down. "No!" the captain cried out.
"What? A trap door?" Vivi clenched her jaw as she stared down the trap door in distress.
"It won't be too long until the Rebel and Royal forces begin their battle to the death" Crocodile calmly remarked. "Even if you hurried to Alubarna from here, who knows if you'll make it in time—to stop the rebellion, you'd need to leave at once Miss Wednesday" he mocked. "Will you do that or try to save your friends instead? It's your choice, but if you choose the latter, it doesn't help that I accidentally dropped the key into the Banana Gators' den."
"Huh? Banana Gators den?!" Vivi gasped, peering down the trap door with a newfound look of fear on her face.
"What are those things?" Luffy questioned. "Ah! Look out the window—there's an alligator growing out of that banana!" he suddenly shouted the second he spotted a rather large alligator swimming around just outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the room.
"Shouldn't that be the other way around?" I sweat dropped.
"In case you both haven't noticed, that's not the only one!" Nami snapped as even more alligators started to swim by.
"Looks like we're in an aquarium—I hope we're not the fish food" Usopp whimpered.
"Well…" I scratched my cheek which only caused him in return to start frantically babbling.
"Don't finish that sentence! I don't want to hear it!" he cried.
"Would it make you feel better if I just mouthed the answer instead?" I asked.
"No!" he snapped.
"What weird bananas" Luffy remarked, brows furrowed in thought as he really started to examine the alligators outside the window.
"Only you could look past the dire seriousness of this situation" I snorted.
A/N: Enjoy
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